What's the fuss?

As for me, I say, "BAH! HUMBUG! Christmas is Christmas, no matter what you call it!" So, there! Commerce will do what commerce will do, and I doubt that commerce gives a flying fk about the religious aspects of the deal. For them, it's a time to make money, pure and simple. And, I really don't have a problem with that. That's how they, and their employees, make a living.

Now, I'm not particularly a religious person anymore ... maybe one day that will change. But, I'll damn well have my CHRISTMAS tree and I'll damn well watch "It's a Wonderful Life" again this year, and chances are good that there will be a Christmas Creche or two hangin' out in my house and I might even go to a Midnight Mass somewhere. Miracles can happen, you know?

Do I LIKE it that the stores are saying, "Holiday" instead of "Christmas" season? No. Am I gonna go ballistic if they do? No.

Today, and during all of OUR lifetimes of experiences, Christmas is Christmas. But, it might be good, too, to recall that many years heretofore it was the Christians who "stole" the season from the pagans and turned it into a religious occasion ... I mean, Jesus wasn't really born on December 25, was he?.

But am I gonna go to the stores to by my kids presents? Sure ... CHRISTMAS presents (or, as I sometimes said back in my "religious period", Christ Mass presents).

So, Bah! Humbug!